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DEFINITION: v. To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery. n. A person who has difficulty accepting praise.
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Stompliment
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: stomp - le - ment
Sentence: Douglas turned every compliment into a stompliment as he could not accept them. Instead he ignored or stomped all over anything positive that people said about him.
Etymology: stomp, compliment
Subeageregoism
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: sub-eeger-eego-ism
Sentence: "Hi Anne, you look great", said Mary. Mary replied, "I wish I did, but I think I look dreadful" in a display of subeageregoism.
Etymology: sub = below Eager = with enthusiam Egoism = feeling of self importance or inflated worth
Complimental
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kom plih men tahl
Sentence: She went totally complimental when he kissed her hand. leaving him with a broken heart nose and tooth
Etymology: compliment mental
Circumtotapraise
Created by: DeanHildner
Pronunciation: Ser-kum-tot-uh-praise
Sentence: Donna circumtotapraised the compliment Brian gave her.
Etymology: Circum- around tot- all; whole praise- praise
Compligrate
Created by: Sarfaraz
Pronunciation: comp...li..grate
Sentence: I felt myself thrown out of the room when my words were compligrated.
Etymology:
Flattereject
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: flatərējekt
Sentence: In an attempt to seem humble, Alex will flattereject any nice thing said about him. It doesn’t take most people too long to figure out that he is right.
Etymology: flattery (excessive and insincere praise) + reject (dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, or not to one’s taste)
Surego
Created by: gbegun
Pronunciation: Sir-ego
Sentence: Because of stacy's surego, she accepted no compliments even from the host of the party she attended.
Etymology: Sur- above ego- someone's persona
Propdrop
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: prop-drop
Sentence: after he complimented her on her hair, she decided to propdrop... so as not to appear too vain too soon
Etymology: drop, props
Revolver
Created by: walterrafelsberger
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I revolvered his compliment.
Etymology: from revolver, noun (similar to gun).
Complimace
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: compliment & mace
Comments:
Hey Verbotomists, Sorry for the double re-run. Here is a new one for today ~ James